A cursory glance over a map of southern Chile reveals an eon of tectonic violence where the Pacific meets the Andes. Over 5,000 islands and as many peaks, valleys and fjords condense in a beguiling labyrinth that beckons as much as it forbids. Oddly, its’ a place where mountains can be explored by sail, but…
Latin America is the place I’m most addicted to travelling to. The 12 months of my life I’ve spent there were so packed full of adventure stories that it’s impossible to describe. I wouldn’t dare pouring them all into this blog for fear of inundating the internet with so many superlatives that the internet itself…
Puerto Montt, capital of the Chilean Lakes district, is possibly the grimiest city I’ve ever visited. It is perpetually drizzling, blanketed with sea mist, the streets are lined with a kind of dirty, greasy residue and the smell of sea-decay blows in from the fishing port that dominates the city. Yet I dug the vibe,…
This post comes to you from a fabled valley hidden deep in Chile’s Northern Patagonia. After a five-hour slog through dense temperate rainforest, contending with eight-foot mud trenches and precarious river crossings, my friend Romain and I arrived at an awe-inspiring Garden of Eden: Cochamó Valley. No car has ever penetrated this valley, no road…
Hi guys, here’s another post from down in Chile’s northern Patagonia. I don’t often photograph architecture but this scene just really captured my attention. I was being shown around some remote subsistence farm properties in the Relconcaví Estuary when I noticed this house. It is an abandoned settler home that is now boarded up and…
Here’s another quick post from northern Patagonia. This time from the Reloncaví estuary which sits directly south-east of Puerto Montt in the the lakes district of Chile. It is a stunningly beautiful landscape dominated by ice capped volcanoes, sheer granite cliffs, impenetrable four thousand year old rainforests and an almost entire lack of roads. Travelling…
Hi guys, today’s post comes from a sailing trip I had the pleasure of doing last December with ‘Sailing Patagonia‘ in Chile. Carlos Lonza invited me aboard his fine vessel named ‘Agartha’ for 5 days of cruising Patagonian fjordlands, pirate tales, ghost ship encounters and dining on Chile’s finest seafood and wine. This photograph is…
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